European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 1b column the stars and stripes monday january 11.1988 euphemisms con be too darn kind by William Safi Jewhen Central Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev brushed off charges violation in the soviet Union with the question what about the Welba dts Ameri cans cringed not at the erode attempt of moral equivalency but at the use of a term now regarded ask slur. A setback from the condition or a mexicans i Ming across the Rio Grande 0 enter the United Stales later became known 33 an illegal alien an when that became onerous the name was changed to person. Now applied to Perrons of an nationality who enter the country without a visa. T Iai brings to mind he subject of ostentatiously kind words and the Subtle change thai it taking place in he avoidance through language or harsh age old an of euphemism is being violated. Rapecis the word i hid in mind but a toured seem so much gentler in Olden times limb was substituted for leg to avoid offence which seems silly but euphemism had its fair uses Tore child made tile less harsh Tor bastards and handicapped was used when crippled Slung. Now impaired ii the combining form to describe handicaps which denotes less of a Handi Cap than disabled. When euphemism lessens pain and docs not Den truth use it. But when euphemism conceals reality from people who ought to be Able to take their Vocab ulary Plain it should be in Post. Loral prostitutes is a Phra that it Clear and direct but is never used by the . Government. In the welcoming packet issued to our embassy employee sin Budapest there is this phrase it must be assumed thai available casual indigenous female companion work for or cooperate with the hungarian govern ment Security when names Are changed for com Mereial Pur poses Lei the buyer beware the department of Agri culture last year soothed beefing meal producers by replacing the word Good in its categories of fat con tent. Crime has the highest percentage of fat or mar bling followed by Choice and now by St acct which used to be food. Butchers disliked Good hey feel that select it More appetizing. In that regard let us recoiling unison from tube steaks he misleading new name for what about those broadcaster who refer to commercial spots As announcements that s a sneak Way to hide a word from out sponsor. Almost As bad is family Counselor describing a simple spanking Asan intensive adv cursive intervention. Big Guys who use Nimby Pamby term took especially ridiculous. Complaining thai his team was being torn apart in the recent football players strike by a false Issue of free Agency pal Bowin owner of the Denver Broncos said that does t mean a tinker s dam to three quarters of the Sho Iii he have Cupic mixed Linker s Danful great controversy Cristi about the Small word in this phrase and whether it should be spelled with an n at the say a dam ii a tiny poll cd of bread used by a Linker or mender of pots to keep Patching solder from running through the holes in pans being mended. When the Patch was completed the dam would be thrown away and became known As Tome thing without value. Oiler etymology its hold that tinkers were a blasphemous lot. Given 1o heavy curs ing hence Damn from the latin Damn Are to condemn or whichever of the theories Yon embrace never substitute darn for dim or Lampoon Magazine has issued i list of current euphemisms including the Tom lets for those unfortunates the hard hearted used to Call Buna or derelict acid trashed for what wearers of jeans use did Call faded and private Penon for the fellow who used to be a Grouchy of the most callous Eup Hemms of modern Lima is recorded by Aleksondr i. Sokhor Nguyn in hit in 19 in a soviet Admiral was sentenced to Meshou however the death Penally had just posing a problem for the stale prosecutor. He Rose to the occasion what Are you worrying about executions have been abolished but he it not being executed he is being weigh to go i was watching wheel of Fortune writes Dorothy Epstein of Brick township nj., adding the defiant parenthesis " yes 1 watch word game shows " and in one show she said they used the phrase Plant Are underway. Should t in have been weigh this is an etymological mistake that has celebrated its 200lh anniversary. We Are in High spirits wrote the British dramatist Richard Cumberland in 1781,"gelling under Richard Henry Dana the american author of two Yean before the Mast picked up the common error and wrote in thai Clastic in 1840 she got under weigh with very Little that kind of hoary provenance a word or phrase usually gains based on the first principle of descriptive linguistics if it Sticks around it s in is incorrect which Means it is still viewed As a variant spelling by most lexicographers. The Nau tical term under Way. Spelled that Way meaning having begun to move through the water was firs recorded in 1741 in England and was used thai Way by Washington Irving in America four Yean before Dana botched in Here. The confusion is with weigh Anchor to pull up a Anchor before sailing As in the song anchors aweigh however As adm. William Henrj Smyt pointed out in his Sailor s word Book in 867, some have written this under weigh but improperly. A ship is under weigh when she has weighed her Anchor. As soon As she gathers Way the is other salts hold that a ship ii under Way As soon As she is not at Anchor aground or made fast Loa mooring and docs not have to be making Way to be under Way. 1 Don t want to get into that sinking feeling experienced by Epstein about spelling is widely shared even by those who do no get defensive about watching game shows but is Dis missed As Folk etymology by us folks in the Lan Guage Dodge. Our problem is the marriage of the two words in the phrase the Washington Post spells i underway the new York times under Way you pays scr Money and you takes scr Choice and dots any body have the origin of that today s crossword across1 Bonifay and thaylas catch 41ptntfl duck42 Bhinde is 45 Leisure � Khayyam 12 fam by achoo-m1 2 banking tunny1 3 Tokyo one14 popular Haht name4 Ola. 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